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NATIONAL PIE DAY – December 1
nationaldaycalendar.com ^ | Nov 30, 2016 | by National Day Calendar

Posted on 12/01/2016 11:48:42 AM PST by heterosupremacist

While it might be the lesser of the two celebrated PIE days (there is also National Pi Day on March 14), it happens to fall smack dab in the middle of a major pie making season.

Take away ice cream as a dessert choice and most people are either cake people or pie people. Or to put it another way, most people have cake or pie with their ice cream! Combine bumper crops from our gardens and fruit trees with a booming holiday season full of baked goods, cool weather and rosy-cheeked children; it’s time to tie on those apron strings and get baking.

Of course, we aren’t limited to dessert. Savory pot pies provide comfort on a cold winters day and the satisfaction a family cook needs when caring for a family.

Each year on December 1, dessert lovers across the United States observe National Pie Day.

This is the 2nd time in a year this national treasure has a day. The first and more popular designation falls on January 23.


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KEYWORDS: pie
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To: Liz

I use phyllo in my tart tatin. It was all I had on hand once and it worked so well, I keep it.


21 posted on 12/01/2016 12:43:12 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Stained-glass cookies is a classic recipe.

The crushed life savers should melt in the oven to form the stained glass.


22 posted on 12/01/2016 12:44:00 PM PST by Liz
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To: miss marmelstein

Mmmmm....tarte tatin sounds luscious....the francophile in me says “merci.”


23 posted on 12/01/2016 12:45:22 PM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

I was told to try Jolly Ranchers which refused to crush or be pulverized. Then the recipe called for the cookie to bake a bit before adding the “glass.” Instead, the hole in the middle completely closed up! Then the glass didn’t melt. Then, I threw the mess against the wall. Now I have the Life Savers which, of course, can be crushed.


24 posted on 12/01/2016 12:46:30 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Liz

An easy Epicurious recipe.


25 posted on 12/01/2016 12:46:54 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: heterosupremacist

That is incorrect. Pie day is March 14, all other days are pretenders... which is no reason not to eat pie.


26 posted on 12/01/2016 12:47:47 PM PST by discostu (Alright you primative screwheads, listen up!)
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To: miss marmelstein

I only made them once.....for a gingerbread house.......but I don’t remember it being a particularly troublesome procedure.

Maybe its your oven......


27 posted on 12/01/2016 12:50:37 PM PST by Liz
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To: Mr. Douglas

Saturday is National Piewagon day.Rosie flies coast to coast eating today’s left-overs.


28 posted on 12/01/2016 12:51:24 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Liz

Maybe it’s me!


29 posted on 12/01/2016 12:53:23 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Liz

That’s beautiful.


30 posted on 12/01/2016 1:12:12 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: heterosupremacist; Jeremiah Jr; cyn; left that other site; Mr. M.J.B.
I love puns. This coming January 20th ought to be designated as national MAN (aleph male) Day:

Gen 6.3. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man [120], for he also is flesh; yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years:

Strong's # 120:

Adam, man, mankind, from 119 (adam, "red")

Adam (the man who is "red"): a-d-m aleph (1) dalet (4), mem (40) אדם

= 45


31 posted on 12/01/2016 1:50:41 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Liz

That is beautiful! I can’t eat phyllo but what a pretty idea!

I did not know it was national pie day! Wish I had time to cook. But I do not.

I added the condensed milk to my modified maida heater pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, but I am not sure it brings anything. Maybe it needed to be caramelized to really bring another flavor in. The filling is already so flavorful that frankly I couldn’t taste the new addition. Did you by any chance caramelize the condensed milk first? That might have done it.


32 posted on 12/01/2016 2:39:01 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: miss marmelstein

I looooove tarte tatin
!!!

Worked for an old Greek chef who made them daily for the hotel; in between doing a million other things, he’d automatically peel and chop a few more apples and toss them into the oven onto the ones already cooking down in their pan. That pie was just stuffed with a zillion cooked caramelized layers of apple.


33 posted on 12/01/2016 2:43:25 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

YOU MUST USE thickly caramelized condensed milk.

And don’t use any old pumpkin pie filling.

I should have emphasized that the pumpkin filling suggested is meant to enhance the dulce de leche.


34 posted on 12/01/2016 2:45:52 PM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

Ok, well, I didn’t caramelize it at all, just poured it onto the crust. My bad.


35 posted on 12/01/2016 7:19:07 PM PST by Yaelle
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